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When the Mexican government ordered people to their homes and for businesses to close amid the coroanvirus lockdown, many Mexicans already living on the breadline were suddenly faced with starvation. But for drug traffickers, the crisis is good PR: they've been giving out care packages and food. But they were the ones that caused Mexico's troubles in the first place. 

Mexico: Narcos to the Rescue?

As many Mexicans go hungry amid the lockdown, drug traffickers have started handing out care packages of food

ARTE Reportage

Mar Maremoto is a queer artist with a punk aesthetic and boundless energy. Her work is vivid and emotionally charged, her drawings and murals striking. She explores the multiple repercussions of machismo in her native Mexico, the anguish of fat-shaming and the difficulty of not conforming to societal norms.

Mexico: Illustrator Mar Maremoto

Queer punk artist Mar Maremoto criticises Mexican machismo and fat-shaming in vivid drawings and striking murals.

Draw for Change

Fentanyl is fifty times stronger than heroin. The illicit trade of fentanyl has triggered a new health crisis in the United States, overwhelming emergency services with a surge of overdoses, often among the young. The synthetic opioids are from Mexico, where they've disrupted the drugs market. There is no need to cultivate poppies or rely on rural communities for opium production. Fentanyl, disguised as harmless-looking pills, is easy, inconspicuous, and simple to produce and transport. However, a single pill can be lethal. The devastating effects of this substance are gradually spreading throughout the American continent.

Mexico: The Cartels Switch to Fentanyl

The illicit trade of fentanyl has triggered a new health crisis in the United States.

Every year 400,000 people from Central America traverse Mexico, a journey of some 2500 kilometres, to try to pass into the USA illegally. The quickest way to get there is by hitching a ride on the roof of what the migrants have nicknamed ‘La Bestia’ (the beast), a freight train running through desert and jungle, right up to the US border.

Mexico:"La Bestia"

Every year 400,000 people traverse Mexico to try to pass into the USA illegally. The quickest way is to catch the freight train ‘La Bestia’.

In the state of Michoacan, in central-western Mexico, one of the regions hardest hit by violence linked to drug trafficking, Patricia, Teresa and Indalecio, are on a heartbroken search for their loved ones.

Mexico: The Lost Children

Patricia, Teresa, and Indalecio are on a heartbroken search for their loved ones

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Mexico: Narcos to the Rescue?

Draw for Change

Mexico: Illustrator Mar Maremoto

ARTE Reportage

Mexico: The Cartels Switch to Fentanyl

ARTE Reportage

Mexico:"La Bestia"

ARTE Reportage

Mexico: The Lost Children